Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
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In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and merges in theology, or meddles with external politics, so also does it mar its proper form when it attempts to mimic the rigorous method of mathematics.
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In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.
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You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
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Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
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I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emotional connections to them, or they make us laugh or reflect some part of ourselves that we want to live in.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.
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Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.
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If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
